28.2762, Calls: Gen Ling, Discipline of Ling/Switzerland

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Subject: 28.2762, Calls: Gen Ling, Discipline of Ling/Switzerland

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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:38:00
From: Carlota de Benito [carlota.debenitomoreno at uzh.ch]
Subject: Statistical standards for scientific discovery in linguistics: a practical introduction

 
Full Title: Statistical standards for scientific discovery in linguistics: a practical introduction 

Date: 04-Oct-2017 - 06-Oct-2017
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Albert Wall
Meeting Email: albert.wall at uzh.ch

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2017 

Meeting Description:

Workshop for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers: Statistical standards for
scientific discovery in linguistics: a practical introduction

October 4-6, 2017, University of Zurich 

Confirmed invited speakers:

Harald Baayen (University of Tübingen)
Regina Nuzzo (Stanford University)
Joaquín Ordieres (Polytechnical University of Madrid)

Over the last years, the current standards for scientific discovery have
repeatedly been questioned. Especially the social sciences are going through a
“replicability crisis” triggered by three main causes: 1) observations and
experiments are carried out on samples that are too small to properly observe
the investigated effects, 2) the current standard for claiming significant
discoveries is based on p-values, which pose several problems (e.g. they do
not indicate the size of the observed effects, they can suffer important
alterations depending on small modifications of the data, eventually leading
to “p-hacking”, and they are poorly understood by many researchers), and 3)
strong pressure for publishing only significant results has lead to a
publication bias caused by the reluctance to publish negative results, which
precludes a great amount of relevant data highly needed to reject type I
errors (i.e. false positives) from getting published.
Some disciplines, like social psychology, are increasingly drawing attention
to these issues, while others, like linguistics, have not yet addressed them
satisfactorily. This workshop aims at providing an opportunity to discuss
these challenges. Particularly junior linguistics researchers, who have
questions on these problems but seldom find answers within the discipline, are
invited to participate. The workshop will bring together renowned experts to
give plenary lectures on relevant topics like sampling methods and sample
sizes, p-values vs. effect sizes and bayesian statistics, cognitive biases
affecting the scientific method, and strong-inferences techniques. The
workshop will have a strong practical focus, combining these plenaries with
short presentations by participants as well as practical sessions accompanied
by the experts.


Call for Papers:

We call for presentations of 15 minutes in which doctoral and postdoctoral
researchers discuss quantitative issues from, or related to, their own
research. The presentations are expected to point at potential problems, which
can subsequently be addressed in practical sessions with the invited experts.
Participants are invited to look at a range of different topics in their
presentations, such as, for example, the following:

- corpus: representativeness of corpora, sample size
- experiments: replicability, variation in and repetition of stimuli,
generalizability from
individual subjects to population
- extralinguistic parameters: determination of relevant factors, different
kinds of
populations
- methods: hypothesis testing, interpretation of p-values and other
statistical measures,
alternatives
- any other relevant topic researchers would wish to address

If you are interested in participating, please send a title and a short
description of your presentation proposal (approximately 200 words) to
albert.wall at uzh.ch before 31 August 2017. Participation slots will be granted
on a first-come-first-serve-basis, and in case of high demand, researchers
from Zurich will be given preference. Participation will be confirmed in the
first week of September. Organization: Carlota de Benito Moreno, Danae Perez,
Albert Wall (University of Zurich)




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